( General Robert E. Lee and that German dude with the funny mustache still have fans)

Since you know so much about Robert E. Lee, please enlighten us with tales of his nefarious exploits. I'd love to hear your "expertise" on the issue.

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The answer was "inertia". It is there because it is there.

This- you have programs in place, money and exchanges between the US and whatever country its in. Plum assignments and such. Basically, if you close it down a lot of people are out of the job and the incentive for the ROK to purchase US weapon systems declines. Suddenly they're looking at the Saab Gripen or the Rafale and not whatever they can get from the US.

Robert E. Lee was a great general. Legendary, really. But he chose the wrong side. He fought for a slave-holding society with expansionist desires. He did so not only in the Civil War, but in the Mexican War. (I know Steelrails is familiar with what Grant said about his regrets as to the latter and how it introduced the former).

Still, the casual equivalence of Robert E. Lee with Hitler jars even with me.

I'd probably feel the same way. Maybe we could get China to put a few big military bases in U.S. cities... let them drive tanks and APCs around our streets and have the Chinese soldiers only sometimes be subject to American law.

What would entitile China to put a few big military bases in U.S. cities? Did they ever save the USA from anybody (like Japan), also that's the same reason the US is in South Korea (The US removed the Japanese and for the southern half of Korea the idiot regimes of Mao and Kim). All the Chinese seem to know how to do is stab other countries in the back.

What would entitile China to put a few big military bases in U.S. cities? Did they ever save the USA from anybody (like Japan), also that's the same reason the US is in South Korea

So we should have French military bases in the U.S. because they were instrumental to our revolution?

No wait, that logic doesn't hold for the other 100+ countries where the U.S. has military bases anyway, does it?
Do I need to list the many, many countries that we did not "save" where the Imperial United States has military installations?